I’m 42 and I’ve been told this like every 5 years or so.
Was told this when I was a kid. I’m 36 now.
And have you not seen things heading in that direction? I’m 57 and I sure as hell have.
Oh yes definitely I’ve seen it slowly going from bad to worse, I guess i meant to say that I’m tired and exhausted from it. And from no one in power actually wanting to do anything about fixing it.
Bernie Sanders has been screaming consistently about it for decades.
Fun fact! The people who control who is in power!
The people don’t want change. They want their luxury, their excess. Even at the cost of the world.
At least they won’t have to worry about not being able to afford a house…
But it would be super cool if our generation could pre-pay their spot in a vault
You got chosen for the baby boomer reenactment vault, enjoy.
NOOOOOOOO!
Important question, which end of the boomer reenactment do I get to be on?
Come on dude you played fallout you know it ends badly lol
The one with all the testing. Very important testing. American testing. Muritest. Guaranteed to be 75% RAD free*.
* guarantee based on availability.
asuming i’ll want kids…
It’s alright. Our (USian) mighty government is doing everything it can to eliminate the choice.
You’d be horrible person to have them. Selfish.
Sorry for trying to find some purpose in this crappy life in the form of nurturing and caring for another person.
I think my kids will still be able to acknowledge that being born today is still far better than being born in basically any other time during the vast majority of human existence though.
Your kids needs to suffer for you idiotic so called purpose. Get a hobby next time, go volunteer instead of dragging other souls down with you
Point me to a time in the past when there was no suffering please.
Around 4.5 billion years ago, at least on earth. The existence of suffering and its universality are good reasons for you to perpetuate it?
Existence is accompanied by suffering, yes. If you can’t accept that, that’s on you. If you wish for all life to cease because of your views, then you’re the selfish one here.
Lol I accept that. although you seem to ignore it for your selfish reasons. My will is not important. I’m merely pointing the fact that your actions increase suffering for your own personal gain. Do with it what you will.
Edit - I’d also add that for many many poor creatures including humans, existence is not accompanied by suffering, but it is only suffering. You are delusional if you think you have the power to save your poor child from it
Shame that your parents didn’t feel that way.
True. But I managed to have purpose without dragging other souls down with me. Thank you for your kind words 🩷
Well, you say that now but the water wars have already started, and your kids won’t qualify to emigrate. You should educate them of survival skills and firearms.
We can mitigate the looming water crisis by spreading awareness, not by encouraging people to choose or equip themselves for violence. Do your part.
Regulation of industrial/animal agriculture water usage, restoration of our environments so they are able to retain water, respecting ground replenishment rates, exploring water capture technologies, desalination, and water pipelines are all things that are in our power.
If we are faced with people literally dying of thirst, or having to deal with the byproducts of desalination - the latter is always preferable.
I’m cracking up. More awareness. Fuck off with your thoughts and prayers, darling, the time for awareness was in the mid ‘90s.
You’re very late to the party.
Well, as it stands, we have more solutions and technology on the table than ever before.
Like proton batteries.
If we pooled our resources into finishing that technology, vertical farms could be scaled sustainably and powered solely by renewables/solar. Energy storage with non-rare earth materials is groundbreaking.
This gives us some breathing room to stop inputting wasteful amounts of water into agriculture and deal with our topsoil. Vertical farms don’t need water input and solar panels are cheap to make. This also mitigates the climate’s effect on agriculture.
If we pooled our resources into finishing that technology
If we could all just get together and do <whatever thing>, we’d be able to do it! I’ve found that relying on other people most often ends in disappointment. I know that’s cynical, but it’s also not inaccurate.
There’s a new battery article every month.
The US is not the entire world thankfully.
The water wars aren’t in the US.
Never heard of the Colorado River, huh?
You aren’t selfish for having kids and doing your best to nurture them. We all share collective responsibility to take action for the issues our species face.
Some people think they can absolve themselves of responsibility and simply vote all the problems away, but the people they are voting in barely have the energy to acknowledge or even address the issues, let alone work towards actual solutions.
I don’t think that people having kids are selfish either. It’s just one of those things you see so often regarding the issue of climate change. The people espousing that view are simply using it as an easy out to absolve themselves of any responsibility in my opinion.
Educating and preparing younger generations to address the issues they will face is unfortunately the most likely way to resolve such issues, and I’ve chosen to take that challenge upon myself despite how difficult and costly it is to raise children now compared to when my parents had me.
These people just have no hope. They have given up on humanity. They are preparing themselves for the worst.
We can choose differently. We can look to what is in our power to mitigate suffering. We can raise awareness and take direct action.
Sorry for trying to find some purpose in this crappy life in the form of nurturing and caring for another person.
I find purpose in helping those who already exist, in the service of preventing suffering.
That’s great, I do that too
Is it not selfish to throw your hands up and give up because governments are choosing inaction and corporations are out of control?
There are plenty of children who are going to grow up into the world, regardless of what people individually decide.
Give up on what? Children aren’t “life” you weirdo Christian fuck.
I’m a childless (for life) gay person and I’m not Christian. Nice personal attack, though.
We all share responsibility to take real action to focus our species on solutions to avoid mass suffering and death.
We all share responsibility to take real action to focus our species on solutions to avoid mass suffering and death.
I do take some fairly serious steps towards anticonsumption and reducing my footprint, such as not eating meat. One of the steps I have taken to reduce the environmental damage that I cause is to not have children. This has an additional effect of preventing their suffering and death.
This seems to be perfectly in line with your stated goal.
Your personal choices are your own decision, but I do think it’s admirable for you to claim personal responsibility.
Though, shaming or judging others for wanting to have a family and continue their genetic line is not something I advocate for.
Your small steps to reduce your impact simply aren’t enough. Even if they were bigger than they are, it still doesn’t put you on a pedestal to look down on others for their decisions. You are free to do so, but you won’t get my approval.
We need worldwide change. Vastly reducing animal agriculture and non-essential industry is imperative.
Choosing to not consume meat doesn’t solve the major issue. It doesn’t make even make a small dent and virtue signalling about your choices doesn’t do anything either.
People buy this stuff because it’s usually cheap and readily available. It’s cheap and readily available because there is almost no regulation.
Slowly phasing out factory farming and animal agriculture and replacing it with lab-grown meat is necessary. We also need to explore non-meat protein sources more seriously, the options that exist just suck, they are expensive (besides tofu), and many products contain common allergens, like soy and wheat.
You seem to be going out of your way to respond negatively to someone who is trying to do something. But you seem mistaken in thinking that I’m seeking some sort of approval.
No, I’m more interested in setting an example that others can follow. Are you familiar with the quote “be the change that you want to see”? I don’t tell people not to eat meat. I let my actions speak for me and simply show them that it can be done, and how to do it. This goes for other anticonsumption habits that I practice as well.
Humanity needs to die, but good job trying to make this into a rip on capitalism. Gonna toss some genocide in there? Go back to ML
Humanity needs to die
If that’s truly your view, then your continued existence is both selfish and hypocritical
Hey buddy, if it was easier to push the power button I would.
Humanity needs to die, but good job trying to make this into a rip on capitalism. Gonna toss some genocide in there? Go back to ML
Are you okay? I’m not an Marxist-Leninist or an authoritarian. The personal attacks keep coming, but you aren’t hitting the mark.
Regardless, I’m sorry you feel that way. Check out r/solarpunk or slrpnk.net to see more nuanced discussion on the issues our species faces and what we can do.
Hey, you’re the one who said not having kids is giving up. Weirdo.
Go back to Reddit
Selfish is having kids to fill narcissistic tendentcies and then bitching and moaning about how other people are unwilling to raise them for you.
I addition, yes.
When they don’t get to grow up. The species expires. Good job OG&E, way to go. Stupid greedy corporate shills. 😓
Fuck em. They are largely magats anyway
goddam maga infants /s
So uh what do I call what we are living in right now?
The calm before the storm.
What we’ve got now is peanuts compared to what kind of future we’re looking towards.
yay.
I would be sad about this, but I think I’ve used up all my sad, and now I’m just pissed. We could prevent all often his, but its gonna have to get really really bad before we drag our leaders out into the streets over this crap. It’s a sad day for our species, and barely anybody even notices.
We could prevent all of this, but its gonna have to get really really bad before we drag our leaders out into the streets over this crap.
And it’s a one-way progression, so if we let it get to that point it’s going to stay at that point even after the leaders are gotten rid of. In order to actually solve the problem properly, we have to do it before it gets bad enough for normies to support it.
Well, fortunately Trump is doing a pretty good job at radicalizing everybody in the US (and outside the US) against the status quo/world order and those who uphold it.
Hopefully we will never resort to that sort of violence to address our problems though.
Radicalizing… who exactly? I see some anemic little protests full of Americans who are unwilling to actually commit civil disobedience, let alone do something “radical.” I see people rolling over and taking it. Where are the “radicalized” people?
Funny, because I’ve been seeing some of the largest protests my city has seen in 20+ years
They are protesting, but are they committing disobedience? Would you picture any of those protests going crazy and throwing the governors out of the windows?
I have seen a lot of +1 million protests in my country during my lifetime. None of them worked for anything.
I’m not saying revolution doesn’t work, historically it does. But your judgement is not very practical. If you act as an individual you get arrested for terrorism and the state charges you with the death penalty. You riot the state brings in the riot police to bash your face in. You truly revolt and they bring in the tanks and declare martial law. Martial law would greatly benefit the current administration.
I don’t know how to get around these obstacles, and I suspect neither do you. I have a whole hell of a lot more respect for those that leave their homes to protest injustice than those that stay at home and do nothing other than critize people for trying. I don’t see you volunteering to fire the first shot in either my country or yours. So until you are ready to take that leap maybe don’t critize those trying to do something. Or come up with a criticism more constructive than “why don’t you just commit crimes and risk everything including your life”. That’s a lot to ask of anyone
Sitting here posting like your entire country wasn’t founded on (and continues to LOUDLY congratulate itself for) risking everything to bring the fight to overwhelmingly powerful and oppressive forces.
Whatever the outcome of all this is, I never want to hear a word about your beloved fucking founding fathers again.
Just because protests aren’t being covered by the mainstream media doesn’t mean they don’t exist. And a significant portion of liberal spaces are becoming radical in sentiment, even if some are still constrained to hoping Bernie and AOC will save them in 2028. You aren’t going to hear me praise anything going as being sufficient, though.
and now I’m just pissed.
Great. Sad leads to apathy; angry leads to guillotines.
It’s a sad day for our species, and barely anybody even notices.
It’s kinda like when you’re hungry and the hunger pains don’t go away until twenty minutes after you’ve started eating so you eat way too much.
A lot of the major consequences aren’t here yet (enough that denial is still possible). People will notice after it’s already gotten really terrible and it’s beyond obvious that we should’ve done anything at any cost about it.
Maybe when the arctic circle is springing up palm trees people will understand that it’s not a Chinese hoax.
You still have piss? I’m so pissed out. It’s just comedy at this point.
It’s still funny to you? I’m just trying to make it to Tuesday.
Oh honey, that was yesterday. Someone needs a hug.
Don’t worry, they are not growing up
Shit, just what I want to read while my girlfriend is in labour.
Just tell her to try and hold things in until tomorrow, that should help.
Congrats!
YES WE FUCKING KNOW
Stop eating animals! Proof that you care and commit to change a destructive habit.
I’ll do that if you remove every part of your life that touches anything even remotely having to do with oil.
I try, but it is hard! Eating lentils instead of animal tissue for protein is very easy. Putting soy milk in your porridge instead of udder milk is very easy. You just buy a product that tastes slightly different next time you go shopping. BÄM! ⅔ less co2 emissions, water pollution and land use from your meal. Well done! It’s the single most powerful thing you can do effortlessly by yourself.
My point is more that this is like someone arguing that a person should stop spilling their drink of the floor of the titanic while it’s sinking.
This doomer attitude will get us nowhere, it drags everyone into apathy and indifference. Your politicians like you like that. But every decimal warming counts. Please give meaning to your existence and stand for something. Not because your impact is so great, but because it’s the right thing to do. Don’t just roll on your back and give up just because you like cheese too much.
Just like all the companies that told us we need to recycle more rather than they having to change anything they were doing. You’ve got an agenda, that’s fine but maybe be a little more circumspect in delivering it.
Why pick something super difficult?
It’s gonna be awesome when we’re old and need end of life care and the younger generations are too poor to help us and too stupid to help us even if they weren’t poor.
We’re headed into a very, very stupid and depressing future. And it’s 100% avoidable.
*was avoidable, by taking steps 25-40 years ago. Boomers took us right over the edge of any cliff they could find, again and again.
Welcome to COSCO, I love you.
There’s so many reasons I’m not having kids. My brother on the other hand is having kids with half the state of Idaho. I’ll do what I can for my niblings but I don’t have enough damage control to go around
It’s half the state of Idaho, Michael. What could it be, 10 women?
Yeah but don’t stop having kids because we need underpaid nursing home staff to work in the hell we made.
We are the extinction event
